Seasons 14-18 (ish) were very uneven, with some not-at-all-funny episodes, but I’ve always thought around season 20 the show got back on track. I get that people think it sucks, but for me it’s much more consistently funny than it was in those teen seasons, and HAS been for about a decade. Some missteps, and some…

It also explained why pest extermination was such a booming business in Albuquerque a few years later.

In a nutshell, the article uses Fisher’s daughter’s portrayal to say every part about Fisher’s role in the final movie was a mistake—but hey, Lourd was willing to do it so (arguably) the Frankenstein scenes of her dead mother were par for the course. I don’t object to the film criticism. I just object to the use of…

This article—and I know this sounds weird to say about an AV Club article—is pretty goddamn harsh. Here are the basics: Carrie Fisher was beloved not just for being Leia, but also for her writing, and frankness in her writing about her personal life.

Jackson says in interviews he can’t imagine why actors wouldn’t want to act, which is why he takes so many dodgy scripts. Even in bad films, you know Jackson will be entertaining, so he’s got that going for him. Not even Murphy’s talent can save a good many movies he stars in, but there’s not a bad movie out there…

I’d image The OA would be more popular in international markets, so maybe if Netflix is so concerned about that, they can bring that back--I’d like to know where they were going with the telepathic octopus.

Yup, that’s what I was describing. I’m not sure if they had any soap-like serials either, but assumed it wasn’t beyond the realm of possibility once you start doing a deep-dive into exactly what kinda serials were actually shown back then--there were some doozies.

Seriously. It would make sense--from radio to TV to streaming. The only modern medium soaps didn’t hit is film, unless there were soap serials in the 1930s-1940s. It’s an artform, and as much as it is derided, plenty of writers, producers, directors, and actors benefited from soap operas, so it has its uses. 

So, in this anthology scenario, Tom becomes a sort of jealous god, deciding who is truly ‘special,’ and the donor recipient has until Christmas to prove they are worthy. If not, Tom’s ghost kills them, and his heart passes, like a holiday fruitcake, to someone new. Got it. I’d watch.

James is the absolute worst, and his little side-plot into a bad film noir story is terrible terrible terrible. As for FWWM, the cut scenes feature more of the TV characters as well as some pretty great scenes with Sarah Palmer—it’s worth seeking out. I think it’s on YouTube.

Season 2 has its moments. The death of Leland remains one of my favorite sequences in the show, and while it’s wholly absurd, I also kinda liked Richard’s sudden decent into madness as a Confederate general. Overall, the second season suffers from Lynch’s absence, but there are enough highlights to make the dreadful…

Almost makes me a baseball fan.

That’s like when, after Bart is rescued from the well, we see Willie putting a sign in place that says ‘Caution: Well’ and saying to himself, “There. That’ll do it.”

I always skip the first 15 minutes of his podcast and am, in fact, currently in the middle of the Devito interview. I guess I’ll track back to the beginning now.

Billie Lourd got her mother’s sense of dry absurdity. It’s great.

Exactly. Sounds like the second-best film named ‘Crash.’ 

Do I want to know WHICH ‘Crash’?

Is it possible the reason conservatives don’t do anything on guns or with school shootings other than make them more horrific is because they want to encourage more home-schooling?

I dunno, but the FXX app is awful, at least on AppleTV. And the Simpsons World thing--which they’ve mostly done away with anyway--is dreadful. I hope D+ improves on the whole thing.

Perhaps they left out the detail because the detail wasn’t actually true.